Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-11-16
Epitome of the Week.

Epito1ne of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
Fl, DOMESTIC. Sss.zas. s.s:,sz.s.s gs
THE total receipts Of the Post-ofaoe De-
partment at Washington for the last fiscal
year were $4S, S37 600, and the expendi-
lures $52, 391, 677, leaving deficiency Of
1864. 068. rre1.&s% 49, : rs.
GEORGE HART (colored), who killed Ed
Waldrup near Waverly, Ala, last year, was
taken out Of jail at Opelika on the 9Th by a
mob of masked men and hanged
W. A. COM, q defaulting tax-collector Of
Harris County, Tex, was arrested on the
9th after eluding the vigilance OF the police
for six years
( BIZ an explosion of molten steel on the
9th at the works Of an iron company near
Springfield, Ill, four men were fatally in
jured. '@'@ -
EXPERIMENTS on the 9th at New York with
nitro glycerine shells showed that If iron
ships had been fired at instead of targets
they would have been blown to pieces
GENERAL RUGER gave battle on the 9Th to
the Crow Agency Indians in Montana, in
which word-Bearer and three or four of his
desperate followers we're killed, and the
outbreak was virtually crushed
The Supreme Court of Utah decided on
the 9th to appoint receiver for the Nor
mon church property in excess of the $780,
600 limit fixed by Congress in 1862
THOMAS MAGuIRE, of Somerset, Mass, re-
ceived word on the 9th that he had fallen
heir to a fortune of S., 500, 600 by the death
of brother in Denver
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from this country into Canada have de-
creased, while the exports have maintained
the average of recent years
IT was decided on the 9Th to celebrate in
New York City in 1889 the centennial of the
inauguration of George Washington as
President The celebration will be National
in its character
The Kansas City Cable Railway Company
on the 7th voluntarily made rule allow
ing mail-carriers free passes ON the road
while on duty.
A BUSINESS block in Evansville, Ind, was
destroyed by fire on the 7th, causing loss
of 5000, 900.
The amount Of wheat in sight in this coun-
try on the 7th was officially reported at
So, 144, 758 bushels of corn at 1916, O89
bushels, and of oats at 6, 523, 437 bushels
A year ago the stock of wheat was 81, O4S,
1876 bushels, of corn II, O13,212 bushels,
and of oats 5, $50 495 bushels
Gus LAMBERT became suddenly insane at
Quebec Can, on the 9TH, and cut the Threats
of his wife, child and himself
JOSEPH GAVIN. arailroad grader, fell asleep
with pipe in his mouth in an old stage
coach at Omaha, Neb, on the 9TH, and was
burned to death. A few hours later q
barn caught fire and twenty-nine horses
were cremated sssx..
IT was reported at Washington on the 9TH
that Prof Cushman had unearthed city in
Southern Arizona, near the junction of the
Salt and ella rivers and that his party had
exhumed two thousand skeletons.
FARM-HoUsEs, grain, fences, lumber, etc,
had been burned up on the 9TH by fires
raging In the timber in the neighborhood of
Hillsboro, Ill -
INDIAN INSPECTOR ARMSTRONG telegraphed
the authorities at Washington on the 9TH
that all the refractory Crows, save one, had
been delivered up, and that no further
trouble was feared
ADv1CEs of the 9TH say that the forest
fires had caused such an unnatural heat in
Boone County, W. Va, that trees were bud
ding and leaves and blossoms were appear
ing *[*
z On the 7th MessrA Wasserman, Leyden,
Ochs, Van Pelt Varnell and Wren, the con-
victed Chicago sboodlers," were sentenced
to two years each in the penitentiary.. L
A sEvEN-sToRY apartment building in
Minneapolis, Mimi, was destroyed by fire
+ on the 9TH, causing al loss of $14O, 900.
The Fifth National Bank of St. Louis
closed its doors on the 9TH, owing to con-
tinual withdrawal of funds by depositors
The capital was 1890, 900. and the deposits
were figured at $500. 900
Z r. SAMPSON & Co.'s tobacco factory at
Reidsville, N. c., was burned on the 7th
Loss, 100000
+. WHILE standing at bis door on the 9TH j.
e. Taylor of Jacksonville, Ind, was shot
: dead by some one in ambush "
IT was announced from Washington on
the 9TH that the Civil-Service Commission
had about completed radical revision of
its rules. The effect of one important
change would be to curtail the powers OF
appointing officers .S -
An assignment was made at Cincinnati
on the 7th by James Mack, steamboat
builder and dealer in lumber, sash, doors
and blinds. with liabilities Of 81 90, OOO
AT a meeting of Methodist ministers on
the 9TH at Cleveland, O., resolution urging
Governor Oglesby to permit the law to take
it's course in the case of the Anarchists was
adopted by vote Of 20 to /.
By the caving in of a railroad tunnel on
the 9Th twelve miles west of Coshocton,
O., six men were killed and seven others
were injured
IT was said on the 9Th that owing to the
protracted drought in Southern Indiana
and Illinois wells had given out and streams
had dried up SO that in some places people
were compelled to go several miles for
water. tr:l.-~---,
The first truss of the bridge across the
Hudson at Poughkeepsie which was put in
position on the Sta, is the largest and heav-
lest steel truss in the world It is 525 feet
long, 80 feet deep and 50 feet wide. ,...es..-.
The United States Consul at Baraquilla.
United States Of Colombia reported on the
8th that flour was sold there at forty dol
lars barrel T & ~
In an alteration at the polls In Chicago
on the Sth between James Hussey and Pat
rick Hogan, Democratic ticket peddlers the
latter shot and killed the other.
IT was said on the 9th that the men who
were lynched recently for the murder OF
Rev Mr.. Ryan in Roane County, W. Va,
were innocent Of the crime, and efforts
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